Well, googling variants of "Isle of Apples bookstore" turns up a whole lot of nothing, or rather, so many obviously unrelated results that it's near-impossible to sift through (and melting down to nothing if I add Toronto in as a search term). So...........

We can try to find a connection between Avalon and/or apples and RVR's tweets? I don't even know anymore. I already had an experience with the yellow pages today after which everything ever sounds kind of like "Isle of Apples".

New theory. Isle of Apples is another name for Avalon, which is related both to death and to Morgan. Yet someone is calling from it. Thus, somehow, it's communicating Morgan's fate? It would also explain why RVR's being covert about it, if Morgan is indeed alive.

Theory: The voice is Morgan. I actually thought it sounded like Morgan when I first heard it, but then thought that that was silly and just me looking for familiarity where there was none to find. But now... I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Morgan is running a bookstore.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after.

Hey, I always believed that they somehow survived and escaped to live as normal a lift as they could.

.....is that a real bookstore, by chance?

Krika>Narra has tiny jerk people in her socks.>We are affirming our collective jerkhood by committing genocide on them.Guyshane>I'm going to read the logs and pray that that sentence makes more sense in context>No>No it does not

Speaking as a Torontonian who has been asking every acquaintance all day with even the most passing familiarity with bookstores of the city, has examined google results to no avail, and has spent far longer than is comfortable perusing the Toronto yellow pages, there is no real store by that name in Toronto.

That said, that should not suggest that Morgan isn't here... just that she's making herself difficult for me to find?

(As to why she's here. I tried to puzzle this out in the chat. The only official connection Toronto had to TWWF was the Peter Pan letter, which was already retrieved from another location and is therefore irrelevant. The only other connection between Toronto and TWWF is me, but I find it a stretch to suggest that she's looking for me or trying to follow up on something from one of my letters-- there were other people with more fruitful correspondences, and after we all ended on conciliatory notes, it seems silly to suggest that she's planning to hunt me down. The other route to take is to try to draw connections between Morgan and major Toronto landmarks... which also feels kind of silly, and is probably a dead end.)

Qara-Xuan Zenith wrote:(As to why she's here. I tried to puzzle this out in the chat. The only official connection Toronto had to TWWF was the Peter Pan letter, which was already retrieved from another location and is therefore irrelevant. The only other connection between Toronto and TWWF is me, but I find it a stretch to suggest that she's looking for me or trying to follow up on something from one of my letters-- there were other people with more fruitful correspondences, and after we all ended on conciliatory notes, it seems silly to suggest that she's planning to hunt me down. The other route to take is to try to draw connections between Morgan and major Toronto landmarks... which also feels kind of silly, and is probably a dead end.)

This reminded me the lawyer from Peter Pan's case moved on to another case. Not that I think it has anything to do with all of this, but I'll just leave it here because why not.

Dolphins are some of the smartest animals, yes, but by human standards… Let's say you should praise the god that forces them to stay handless and underwater.

I know I haven't been around much. Or helped with this puzzle whatsoever. But for once I'd take a step for simplicity: This means the three are alive and kicking.

RVR's awareness implies that they're possibly reachable. It's a hook, other developments could be pulled by it, but as it stands, we can't know. It doesn't say a thing about Mr. A knowing or not, though he does have an account in this forum so if we know, he can know. Which could be the reason RVR and Morgan only gave us a small tease that can't lead us to contacting her: Since RVR can hide from A by hiding the serial numbers, we're the only ones that can spoil her current whereabouts. Given that we now know A broke the wall, it's not far fetched to say that the three would rather not be found by Mr. A... Just in case he decides to have an idea or three, you know, for science.

As for "Why Toronto?". Again, I'll go for simplicity: Because Qara. We have a precedent for this, after all. The Wicked Witch got drunk and wound up in, drum rolls, Brazil. Because me and Vic and no echoes or other developments taking place here. Then she went home and then wound up stranded in Mexico, oh, right that's where Blur lives. ^_^ The GMs said so in the Postmortem, though I'm to lazy to dig up, something to the extent of "The Witch winding up in Brazil and Mexico was a way to give a nod to the players from countries where we didn't have any developments previously planned". Anywhere could work, but Toronto gets bonsus points because Qara. Besides, if she wanted to leave the US in a hurry to get away from her known place, Canada is close by and doesn't necessarily require passing through airport security.

Lastly, why I think it's just that simple: Rick's words are that we have all of the pieces they made for this puzzle. Although we may or may not be able to understand all that it means, this is all I can extrapolate from the information we have here.

Krika>Narra has tiny jerk people in her socks.>We are affirming our collective jerkhood by committing genocide on them.Guyshane>I'm going to read the logs and pray that that sentence makes more sense in context>No>No it does not

Well, I did actually try to email Morgana, but got a delivery failure notification about ten seconds after I posted above. I guess it was too much to expect for Erik to keep Pheeble up and running once the danger was gone.

Extremely well done, Pix. While you may not have contributed to solving the puzzle, your deductive reasoning, combined with a healthy dose of genre savvy, has led you to a bevy of correct answers.

In fact, I'll say it outright - your post is 100% correct. There are various implications to all of that being correct, but those will wait for another day. God willing, it'd be awesome to make a sequel, and it helps to have groundwork done.

I smiled when the wall was built, for I knew we were creating something incredible. And I smiled when it cracked, for the world would soon see what we had wrought.

I thought this stuff was a given. If that was all there was to this puzzle, I've been looking for answers that don't even exist when I already had all there was to see. Then again, who knows. Maybe the GMs stuck some tidbits in there we haven't found yet. I'm gonna keep thinking about it.

Normal people are the easiest to manipulate. Too smart and they have an annoying tendency to catch wind of your plans, too dumb and, in the words of a certain pirate, "You can never tell when they are about to do something incredibly...stupid."